From:
Hubert Howe Bancroft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 38
Summary:
Sends a volume and will send next volumes of a work intended to contribute to the study of mankind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Thomas Knowles
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 169: 41
Summary:
Regrets he is unable to republish Whitney’s article in the Contemporary Review. Would much appreciate an article from CD on the subject and suggests that CD might quote from Whitney to any extent he likes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 38
Summary:
Regrets he cannot follow the line of denial CD suggests. Explains why he must defend himself against charge that he approves of oppressive laws.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 106: C16
Summary:
Asks CD to look over those parts of the proofs of his Belfast address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii] that mention CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Marlow Wilkinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 84–5
Summary:
Reports his observations of Utricularia [in their natural state] as CD requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Leyson Lewis
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 8 August 1874, p. 174
Summary:
Encloses specimen of a male hop with female flowers. It is the only peculiarity in the ground.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Aug] 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C56–8; DAR 210.2: 39
Summary:
Sends a draft of his letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review [137 (1874): 587–9], answering Mivart’s charges. Encloses draft of CD’s letter to John Murray, urging publication of GHD’s defence, with George’s amendments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 or 7] Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 40
Summary:
Urges CD not to break with Murray even if he does not force the editor [of Q. Rev.] to insert GHD’s letter [in response to Mivart’s attack]. Murray may have a rule not to meddle with editor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 85
Summary:
Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.
Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.
Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin; Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 139–40
Summary:
Describe the Pinguicula species found at Mürren. Have found seeds on some. Their large roots seem to indicate that they do not get much animal food.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41914 p. 203)
Summary:
Acknowledges CD’s complaint against a paper [by St George Mivart] in the last Quarterly Review [see 9568]. Agrees to print George Darwin’s answer [see 9596].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel T. Gardner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C75
Summary:
The Club is proposing to celebrate Humboldt’s 105th birthday and would welcome a message from CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 214–18
Summary:
Describes his work on Nepenthes.
Cephalotus is a beast.
His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.
Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 81–2
Summary:
Sends specimens of Pinguicula with insects adhering. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 369.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander V. W Bikkers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 184
Summary:
Reports on a crossbreed between a duck and a fowl, having duck’s beak, partly webbed feet, and fowl’s feathers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Alexander Gammie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 165: 6
Summary:
Sends his observations on the method of fertilisation of Hedychium coronarium by Sphinx and other hawk-moths.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 219–20
Summary:
Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.
Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.
Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henryk Stecki
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 252
Summary:
Reports observations on a chicken with a human face.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 125–6
Summary:
Sends CD a box of Pinguicula leaves.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
